Hear Secret Sciences, the latest track from Devin Townsend Project album Transcendence, out next month

Townsend recently admitted the record was his attempt to stop being “a controlling prog dude,” adding: “I wrote 50 or 60 songs and kept sending them to everybody, the band, management and label. I asked them to tell me which ones they liked and so we’d start working on that.

“What I did, as opposed to directing every last detail, was start from the beginning, go through each riff and then discuss it. A dialogue opened up where everyone was contributing and talking about it, and in a way it moulded it into something where lyrically I could take that process. It became the theme of the album, ultimately."

He said he was grateful for his fans’ tolerance of the “left turns” he keeps taking with his music. “What comes with that is also the acknowledgement that there’s a style of music I’ve made with the DTP vibe,” he continued. If I can continue to do it with honesty then I should do it.”